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Journeying With Jesus - 40 Days Lent DevotionalSample

Journeying With Jesus - 40 Days Lent Devotional

DAY 25 OF 40

About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).

That cry of dereliction is something we will never fully grasp. It was a cry within the being of the Triune God. 

As I’ve heard it explained, Jesus was so marred by the sin of the entire world past, present and future, that God, the Father, had to turn his face away from his beloved Son. As I see it, he could not bear to see the depravity of the world taken on by the holy blemishless Lamb of God. 

This is the only time Jesus address the “Father” as “God.” I don’t think we’ll ever know the dynamics of that moment. But, in those words, the utter desolation Jesus experienced comes through plainly. Jesus experienced the wrath that we deserved by bearing our sin. Jesus gave up his right of intimacy with his Father.

This was the reason he wept and prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Yet, beneath it all, is the fact that Jesus endured the Cross, scorning its shame for the “joy set before him.” 

Bringing It Home

Do I allow the loneliness and abandonment of the Cross to take hold of my heart? 

Lean In

Jesus, I’ll never be able to understand that exact moment when in the darkness you uttered that cry of dereliction. But because of that loneliness you experienced I will never have to walk alone. I’m accepted because you were forsaken. I’m forgiven because you were condemned. Amazing grace, how can it be? Amen

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Journeying With Jesus - 40 Days Lent Devotional

‘Journeying With Jesus’ is a Bible plan to help us walk with Jesus through the last two chapters of Matthew. We stop to focus on Jesus' last days on this earth and what that means to us. How does that change who I am and Whose I am today? We will take time to dwell on Scripture and “bring it home” with questions that make us consider where we are on the journey of knowing Jesus.   

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We would like to thank Susan Narjala for providing this plan. For more information, please visit: http://www.susannarjala.com